Man does that look great. My only tiny complaint is that I wish the room in which Takeda uses the Gatling gun would be more expansive looking as it did in the anime.

Other than that it looks pretty darn perfect. WB should take note as they are producing this and smarten up and have Takashi Miike or Kazuaki Kiriya direct Bleach with a modestly big budget (75-90 million) and he'll whip up something incredible.

Having in mind the director from Nutty Proffessor 2 is just such a failure that it gives me a headache just thinking about it. So I really hope they scrap him and get Japanese talent on board instead.

Definitely, that'd be awesome. I bought 13 Assassins a while back and I kept thinking of Samurai Champloo while watching it. The thing with Bleach, is not ALL the characters should be played by Japanese actors... it needs a multi-racial cast.